5 top tips for kicking off the National Read Aloud Challenge successfully!
The National Read Aloud Challenge aims to reduce reading regression over the summer as well as enhancing a love for reading. We want all children to return to school in September as confident, excited readers.
Follow these five tips to ensure your school is set up successfully to make the most of the challenge!
1.School Community
Encourage children, parents and teachers at your school to be on board with the challenge. If you secure the support from the whole school community, they will naturally work together to keep the reading momentum going.
Talk to children about the challenge in assemblies and during classroom time.
Remind your staff about the challenge during staff meetings and in the staff room.
Keep the parents involved by posting about the challenge on social media and sending out the letters we have provided.
2.Materials and Resources
Use the National Read Aloud Challenge resources available on your school’s personalised webpage. We have created these so that your workload is kept to an absolute minimum. You are provided with an assembly presentation, parent letters, posters & flyers, a staff information presentation and so much more! Make the most of the resources to promote the challenge!
3.Dive into the App
Explore the app so you are familiar with it. You will feel more confident when talking about the challenge if you have taken the time to get to know the app the children will be using. You might also want to have book discussions with children and recommend some books that you have seen on the in app library. The more book talk, the better!
4.Praise, Praise, Praise
Praising children who have signed up to the app is a great way to encourage other children to get involved. Celebrate the class who has the most children participating, congratulate children in assembly for signing up and thank parents for getting their children involved. Everyone loves a bit of praise (even the parents)!
5.Check in
Not all children will have access to a tablet at home. Check in with those children and give them the opportunity to take part in the challenge while they are still at school so they feel involved.
Remember, if you have any questions about the challenge, please use the ‘get in touch’ link and we will get back to you as soon as possible!
Enrol your school or register your child now!
www.readaloudchallenge.co.uk
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